The Korea Now Podcast #75 – Stephen Nagy – ‘Coronavirus and East Asia - Investigations, Coercion and Middle Power Alliances’

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Stephen Nagy. They speak about the impact of coronavirus on East Asia, how the crisis has affected relationships in the region, the opportunities that it originally presented for deeper cooperation, the failure of leadership from Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, how Japan are dealing with the crisis, the substantive links between China’s response to the current moment and that with recent challenges in Hong Kong and the arrest of a Huawei executive in Canada, the institutional problems inside China that are being exposed, the impact on global trade and regional economies, the need for an independent investigation into China’s original handling of the outbreak, the economic coercion that China are using to discourage such an investigation, and importantly the future of East Asia and the Asia Pacific as well as the prospects for the emergence of influential new middle power alliances.

Stephen Nagy is a Distinguished Fellow at Canada's Asia Pacific Foundation (APF), a Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI), and an appointed China expert with Canada’s China Research Partnership. Stephen is currently a Senior Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the International Christian University, Tokyo. He was selected for the 2018 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) AILA Leadership Fellowship in Washington, and has published widely in both peer-reviewed journals and popular media. You can follow Stephen’s writing, and access the research sources for this podcast at: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/author/stephen-r-nagy/, http://icu.academia.edu/StephenRobertNagy and http://stephenrobertnagy.academia.edu/

*** The link to the previous podcast with Stephen Nagy on regionalism and summit diplomacy is available here: https://korea-now-podcast.libsyn.com/the-korea-now-podcast-39-stephen-nagy-regionalism-failed-summits-and-the-view-from-japan

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The Korea Now Podcast #74 – Sandra Fahy – ‘Dying for Rights in North Korea, Part 2 - The Denials’

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Sandra Fahy. They speak about the second half of Sandra’s new book ‘Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record’, the response from North Korea to significant human rights accusations such as with the United Nations Commission of Inquiry, how North Korean media reports and deals with accusations of this kind, the specific threat of defector testimony to the regime in Pyongyang and their efforts to discredit or silence the defector community, the language and rhetoric that they use, the current state and nature of human rights inside North Korea, and the hope for the future. This is the second of two podcasts on Sandra’s book, the first focussed on ‘The Crimes’.

Sandra Fahy completed her doctorate in Anthropology at the School for Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, has held post-doctoral fellowships at the Sejong Society, the University of Southern California, and École des hautes études en sciences socials in Paris. She is currently a visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Sophia University in Tokyo. She is the author of ‘Marching through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea’ (2015); and ‘Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record’ (2019), both published with Columbia University Press.

* Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record (http://cup.columbia.edu/book/dying-for-rights/9780231176347)

* Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea (http://cup.columbia.edu/book/marching-through-suffering/9780231171342)

*** The podcast covering Sandra’s first book, ‘Marching through Suffering’, is available here: http://korea-now-podcast.libsyn.com/the-korea-now-podcast-20-sandra-fahy-the-language-of-suffering-life-and-struggle-during-the-north-korean-famine

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The Korea Now Podcast #73 – Sandra Fahy – ‘Dying for Rights in North Korea, Part 1 - The Crimes’

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Sandra Fahy. They speak about the first half of Sandra’s new book ‘Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record’, the nature and scope of the human rights abuses in North Korea, the history of these violations, the impact and responsibility for famine and hunger, religious persecution across the country, the control of information, the control of movement and labour, the system of prison camps, torture and execution, and North Korea’s exportation of human rights violations. This is the first of two podcasts on Sandra’s book, the second will focus on ‘The Denials’.

Sandra Fahy completed her doctorate in Anthropology at the School for Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, has held post-doctoral fellowships at the Sejong Society, the University of Southern California, and École des hautes études en sciences socials in Paris. She is currently a visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Sophia University in Tokyo. She is the author of ‘Marching through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea’ (2015); and ‘Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record’ (2019), both published with Columbia University Press.

* Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record (http://cup.columbia.edu/book/dying-for-rights/9780231176347)

* Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea (http://cup.columbia.edu/book/marching-through-suffering/9780231171342)

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The Korea Now Podcast #72 – Donald Baker – ‘The Religious Landscape in South Korea’

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Donald Baker. They speak about the history of religion on the Korean peninsula, the rise and place held by Shamanism, Buddhism and Confucianism, the arrival of first Catholicism and then Protestant Christianity, the ways in which Koreans tended to not associate themselves with specific religious identities during the Chosŏn Dynasty and into the Japanese colonial period, how religion emerged after the end of the Second World War, the transformative impact that Protestantism had on the religious landscape, how this new religiosity affected ideas of modernisation and democracy, the role that religion played in the Gwangju Uprising (including Don’s firsthand account of the massacre), how Korea’s religious scene can be best described as a marketplace, and the future of religion in Korea.

Donald Baker is a Professor in Korean History and Civilization at the University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. in Korean history from the University of Washington and has taught at UBC since 1987. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Korean history and thought (religion, philosophy, and pre-modern science). In addition, he teaches a graduate seminar on the reproduction of historical trauma in Asia, in which he leads graduate students in an examination of how traumatic events in Asia in the 20th century.

He was a co-editor of the Sourcebook of Korean Civilization and editor of Critical Readings on Korean Christianity.  He is also the author of Chosŏn hugi yugyo wa ch’ǒnjugyo ŭi taerip (The Confucian confrontation with Catholicism in the latter half of the Joseon dynasty) and Korean Spirituality (University of Hawaii Press, 2008). In 2008, he was awarded the Tasan prize for his research on Tasan Chŏng Yagyong, a writer and philosopher in Korea in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 2013 he was been asked by the National Institute of Korean History to serve as the chairperson of the International Advisory Committee for the English Translation of the Annals of the Chosŏn Dynasty.

Pertinent to this podcast Don is also the author of: ‘The Impact of Christianity on Modern Korea’ (https://www.academia.edu/26306252/THE_IMPACT_OF_CHRISTIANITY_ON_MODERN_KOREA_AN_OVERVIEW), ‘The Emergence of a Religious Market in Twentieth-century Korea’, (https://www.academia.edu/26306251/The_Religious_Market_In_Korea), and ‘The Transformation of Confucianism in 20th Century Korea’ (https://www.academia.edu/35433613/THE_TRANSFORMATION_OF_CONFUCIANISM_IN_20th_CENTURY_KOREA_-HOW_IT_HAS_LOST_MOST_OF_ITS_METAPHYSICAL_UNDERPINNINGS_AND_SURVIVES_TODAY_PRIMARILY_AS_ETHICAL_RHETORIC_AND_HERITAGE_RITUALS).

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